THE relationship between a government and the media is a fair indication of the state of freedom available to the citizens of a given country. The ties between this administration and the media reached its nadir in March during the lawyers’ protest against the anti-CJ reference when the police vandalised some media offices. Later came […]
ISLAMABAD: The New York-based Human Rights Watch asked President General Pervez Musharraf on Sunday to release the opposition activists rounded up ahead of the planned return of former premier Nawaz Sharif. Ali Dayan Hasan of the HRW, referring to the news reports that Sharif’s more than 2,000 supporters have been locked up, told General Musharraf […]
ISLAMABAD: The Interior Ministry has set up a Migration Management Cell to prepare a national database on human trafficking and for creating linkages between various ministries concerned, an official source said here on Sunday. The Ministry of Interior is holding a conference in this connection in Islamabad on September 12, aimed at developing linkages between […]
PESHAWAR, Sept 9: The Jamaat-i-Islami Pakistan has asked United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon to take notice of human right violations in the Federally Administered Tribal Area (Fata) and force the Pakistan government to extend the Political Parties Order, 2002 to the region. In a letter to the UN secretary-general, the deputy general secretary of JI’s […]
RAWALPINDI:Transporters of route No-1 thrashed journalist on complaint of not completing the route besides snatching his cell phone, cash, press card and national identity card on Monday. As per details, the PPI Islamabad Staff Reporter, Syed Agha Ali RazaNaqvi was coming from his residence, Sadiqabad to his office located at Super Market Islamabad through public […]
Islamabad: Airport Security Force personnel (ASF) have ordered journalists to leave the airport premises immediately and have asked media to remove their equipment. PIA flight carrying ex Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif is expected to land at Islamabad airport at 7.30 a.m. this morning. Security has been tightened around seven airports across the country due to […]
SWAT, Sept 9: A CD shop was blown up by unidentified attackers near the Islampura area in Saidu Sharif late on Saturday night with an improvised explosive device. The blast also damaged some nearby grocery shops. The bomb was planted outside the shop of Gul Shad situated in Fazal Bacha Market. Panic gripped the area […]
**For further information on previous bombings of music and video stores by religious extremists, see IFEX alerts of 28 August, 9 July, and 8 and 7 May 2007** (PPF/IFEX):A powerful explosion in the town of Mingora, in the Swat district of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan, destroyed over 50 shops in two […]
A woman was allegedly clubbed to death over a petty dispute in Naroke Mahja in Pattoki city police jurisdiction on Sunday. Hussna Bibi had barred Liaqat Ali from passing through her street along with his cattle. This annoyed Liaqat and he called his brothers Rafique, Muhammad Aslam and a relative woman, Azra Bibi, who later […]
KASUR, Sept 9: Two people threw acid on the face of a would-be bride allegedly to avenge an old family dispute with her groom in Dhako village in Chunian police station. Naik Bibi had to marry Mushtaq today (Monday) but groom’s former brothers-in-law, Sarwar and Liaqat, stormed her house where wedding ceremonies were going on […]
MUZAFFARGARH, Sept 9: An Islamabad-based NGO has arranged for the medical treatment and financial assistance of a woman of Basti Budh who suffered burns in an acid attack by her husband a week ago. Mureed Abbas, a representative of the Acid Survivor Foundation, visited Basti Budh on Sunday and met 18-year-old Irshad Bibi – a […]
MINGORA, Sept 9: A Christian missionary girls’ school at Sangota was closed down for an indefinite period on Sunday after a letter threatening suicide attacks was issued purportedly by an extremist organisation. The organisation charged the school’s administration of preaching Christianity and vulgarity among students. The organisation Janisaran-e-Islam (Devotees of Islam) issued a two-page ‘red […]
Larkana, sept 9: mohammad Jumman Korkani with the help of his friends barged in the house of Hussain Baksh Karkoni. He opened fire and killed his sister-in-law Samina Khatoon for karokari while his mother got injured due to the firing. Source: Daily Jung Date:9/10/2007
PESHAWAR, Sept 9: Popular Pashto folk singers are switching over to other professions and businesses in the face of mounting hostility to music and growing trend of ‘Talibanisation’ in the Frontier province. The hostile environment in the province has forced many singers to say goodbye to music and try their luck in other businesses. “I […]
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